Mississippi · Nonprofit
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,063,523 to it, the largest being Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation ($1,984,111). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Desoto County Dream Center Inc does
Mission
Desoto county dream center has made its mission to connect people to a community of support by serving as a resource center focused on finding solutions to hunger, lack of education and healthcare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community food distribution program: provided meals, supplies, and other resources for large-scale food distribution.
$93,561 spent11% of program spendingBenevolence program: provided educational supplies, utilities payment assistance, and financial resource assistance to desoto county residents and other benevolence-focused organizations.
$216,994 spent24% of program spendingCommunity development program: provided supplemental educational opportunities via supplies and tutors for youth experiencing challenges with learning and development; provided healthcare for uninsured workers
$578,014 spent65% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $888,569.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $408k to $1.8M (+348%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Patrick Conrad
President/board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $48k → $1.5M.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 98% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC?
- DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,063,523 to it, the largest being Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation ($1,984,111). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,063,523 in grants to DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC?
- Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,984,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing